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Order of Merit from the Republic of Poland

Tuesday 4th June exactly 30 years on from the date when democracy began to be restored in Poland, Sir Roger has been given a state honour by President Andrzej Duda: “Recognising outstanding merits in the activity for the support of democratic transformation in Poland as well as for developing Polish and British scientific and academic cooperation: the grand cordon of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland has been bestowed on the citizen of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland,...

Post Truth

Post-Truth

Roger Scruton

For as long as there have been politicians they have lied, fabricated, and deceived. However commentators are beginning to tell us that something has changed in the last few years. It is not that politicians have ceased to tell lies or to pretend that the facts are other than they are. It is rather that they have begun to speak as though there is no such distinction as that between facts and fabrications. We live in a post-truth world – such is the mantra. Two books e...

Roger Scruton is a friend, not a foe, of Islam - Spectator Blog April 19

Spectator Blogs - Ed Husain

I am not a right-winger. I am ashamed to say that I discovered Sir Roger Scruton only four years ago when an argument in a Washington DC think-tank led to a search for contemporary philosophers who took a long view of civilisation, history, ideas, and implications of philosophy.

Delingpole: Sir Roger Scruton Just Won a Landmark Victory in the Culture Wars

James Delingpole for Breitbart on 25th April. 

Conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton has won a spectacular victory against the New Statesman – the left-wing magazine which interviewed him and then tried to smear him as a racist, bigot and anti-Semite.

Read the full article here BREITBART.

The Mail on Sunday - 28th April 19.

I was fired for things I didn't say and don't believe, says Sir Roger Scruton as he warns of an 'atmosphere of intimidation' growing in Britain

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PUBLISHED: 01:06, 28 April 2019 | UPDATED: 01:23, 28 April 2019

Two weeks ago I was sacked from my unpaid position as chair of a government commission devoted to beauty in building. Given the atmosphere of intimidation that is growing in our country, I have to say that...

News from Scrutopia - 2 May 19

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Scruton Tapes Roger Scruton George Eaton interview

Scruton Tapes and Audio clips are now available on YouTube:

The text publsihed by George Eaton can be found here 

Scruton Tapes: an anatomy of a modern hit job by Douglas Murray in this week's Spectator can be found here 

The Today Programme

Full podcast of Today programme https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p077jtxs

interview: "I want my name cleared". 

Roger appeared on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning (26/4/19) to discuss the interview he gave George Eaton of the New Statesman. The recording can be heard on the BBC website at the time marker 1:46.28. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0004f5j

Diary, The Spectator 20.4.19

Roger Scruton: Should I forgive the journalist that got me fired?

Sunday, 7th April 2019. Travelling back from London with the St Matthew Passion filling my head, after the moving performance from the Elysian Singers and Royal Orchestral Society under Sam Laughton at St James’s Piccadilly. Why does that last chord send shivers down the spine?

pdf of the Diary: SpectatorDiary.pdf

Notre Dame de Paris

Le Figaro 17/04/2019

Sometimes I stay on the Isle de la cité, in an apartment borrowed from a friend. From the kitchen window I look out across rooftops to the solemn towers of Notre Dame, and for long moments in the evening I am transfixed by the great shoulders that blacken the sky.